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Bryn Mooser '01 spoke with  about XTR, his latest venture focused on producing documentaries, nonfiction television series, and branded content.

, a “quirky queer coming-of-age comedy” co-directed by Ben Mankoff ’11, has been making the rounds of the international queer film festival circuit since its release earlier this year. The film was included in Italy’s 2019 Torino LGBTQI International Film Festival and has since been part of festivals in Barcelona, Toronto, San Francisco, Ireland, and Los Angeles.

Technical Instructor in Printmaking Corinne Rhodes her new instruction book, Non-toxic Century Plate Lithography Part 1, through Blurb Books.

Marie Lorenz, the immersive artist featured in the exhibition Marie Lorez: Waterways at the Usdan Gallery from April 6 - May 9, 2019, spoke to New England Newspapers Landscapes correspondent Elodie Reed about her work. 

“In higher education, ceramics is often taught with a community-oriented spirit,” said . “Students work together in a common space and in front of one another. They’ll put their works together in a kiln load that’s then fired collaboratively. Ceramics tends to draw in students who value community.”

Earlier this year, Design and Planning Coordinator Erin McKenny and faculty member Jon Isherwood were approached by the organizers of the annual (NBOSS) to explore how Bennington students could engage with the (VSNB) and participate in the outdoor sculpture show.

As the Robert Frost Stone House Museum opens for its second season under 51��������’s stewardship, visitors to the property will be invited to reimagine Frost and his surrounding environment with (Im)Possibilities of Landscape, a senior curatorial work presented by Sophia Gasparro ’19.

When five first-year 51�������� students began their annual Field Work Term at in January, they were not sure what to expect working at an adult day care facility.

“In the world, it’s often the case that a Deaf person is expected to read lips, have the accommodations they need, to do the work to hold a conversation, when really it’s hearing people who should be making the effort,” said Madeline Poultridge ’20.

51�������� connections abound in the Bennington Museum's exhibition Works on Paper: A Decade of Collecting, which highlights a disparate body of works, from historic to contemporary and self-taught works, to creations by Bennington Modernists. The exhibition is on view through May 5. 

At the American Museum of Natural History’s exhibit , guests are invited to interact with displays, including a touchable cast of a T. rex femur, which Eulala Harden Scheel ’20 helped sculpt during her Field Work Term.

The launch of 51��������’s new Art for Access initiative has yielded more than $3.1 million to establish the College’s inaugural Art for Access scholarship fund, which will provide financial aid for talented students who otherwise would not be able to afford a Bennington education.

Technical Instructor of Lighting and Dance Production Mark O’Maley is the instigator and designer for the art installation A Thing is Determined by its Nature, a collaboration with WCU Theater & Dance Associate Professor Liz Staruch in the Knauer Gallery at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

From December 6, 2018, to January 19, 2019, Ann Pibal's Surf Type is on display at Team Gallery In New York.

This winter, a group of Bennington collaborators led by Asad J. Malik ’19 of are headed to with a pioneering project poised to test the waters of a new storytelling medium. Their project is also the only New Frontiers submission helmed by undergraduates.

Artists Sarah Fetterman '14 and Nicole Czapinski '06 returned to campus this autumn for a residency supported by the Woodbury Foundation.

To Steven Albahari ’82, 51�������� was “the cannon I stepped into that launched me and my potential.”

Mira Darham ’19 will exhibit her work at the , the largest contemporary art museum in Montana, from January 25 - March 9, 2019.

As part of Usdan Gallery’s participation in the initiative, Art New England the related work that director and curator Anne Thompson, artist Torkwase Dyson, and 51�������� students are pursuing.

Nicole Donnelly '02 is combining her painting and papermaking skills with ecological and environmental awareness for her new public art installation in South Philadelphia's Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park. 

AdWeek selected Asad Malik '19 as one of its 2018 Young Influentials, a selective group of 31 media, marketing, and tech talents who are innovating in fields from AR to Activism, Data to Diversity. 

RYOT, an immersive entertainment studio founded by Bryn Mooser '01, is opening up a physical studio space with a focus on cutting-edge media production technologies this fall. 

Shortly after sculpture Maren Hassinger ’69 finished graduate school, she sat in her studio in Los Angeles and set the tone for her future.

Ann Pibal's exhibition LUXTC is on display at Team (bungalow) from June 24 to August 5, 2018. Team (bungalow) is located at 306 Windward Avenue in Venice, CA.

President Mariko Silver and faculty members Anne Thompson, director and curator of the ; Megan Mayhew Bergman, director of special programming and the ; and Dina Janis, artistic director of the ; spoke with the Bennington Area Chamber of Commerce about the region's arts landscape.

Asad Malik ’19 a Top 10 Filmmaker to Watch in 2018 by The Independent.

Cosmo Whyte '05 has been named a winner of The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia's 2018-19 Working Artist Project Fellowship, along with artists Myra Greene and Krista Clark.

When students in Richard MacPike’s unwrapped the silk scarves they had dyed using arashi and itajime techniques, they were surprised by the results they found.  

October 9–December 15, 2017

Alexandra Bell is known for her “Counternarratives” project of supersized New York Times articles edited to reveal biases and assumptions about race and gender. Usually posted one work at a time around everyday locations in New York City, her “Counternarratives” prints appeared at Bennington as a series of four installed on building exteriors around campus.

How can food capture what makes a community distinctive? As a graduating senior studying Visual Arts, Public Action, and Dance, Isabella Poulos ’18 has devoted her time at Bennington to studying the intersection of food, art, and community.